SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 6/12/2014

Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by us and your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

Chili's Bacon Mac 'n' Cheese

Chili's Loaded Chicken Enchilada Soup

Chili's Chicken Bacon Ranch

Chili's Cajun-Style Chicken Alfredo

See you tomorrow in the freezer aisle, Applebee’s! Oh wait! No, we won’t. (Spotted by Dan and Nick at Walmart.)

TicTac Grape & Apple

If you live in Australia, this flavor is called Grape Envy Tic Tac in your country. In several other countries, it’s called We Don’t Have Those Here. (Spotted by Angela at Speedway.)

Betty Crocker Suddenly Grain Salad

I’m not impressed with these Betty Crocker Suddenly Grain Salads. If Betty Crocker snapped her fingers and made a grain salad suddenly appear, then I would be impressed that Betty Crocker exists. (Spotted by Garrison at ShopRite.)

Fuze Iced Tea Concentrate

Each carton of Fuze Iced Tea Concentrate makes two gallons of iced tea or one upset stomach if I drink all the concentrate straight from the carton. (Spotted by Whitney at Walmart.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Nosh Show Episode #31 Crazy Buns

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In this episode, we chew over another 2014 Oreo release, another 2014 Mountain Dew release, new products from the 2014 Sweet & Snacks Expo, and we replace the Nosh of the Week segment with something new. Links to most of the products we talk about during the episode can be found at The Nosh Show website.

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SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 6/11/2014

Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by us and your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

Tombstone Limited Edition Chicken Fiesta

Tombstone’s Limited Edition pizzas include their Beef Ranchero and this Chicken Fiesta with ranchero sauce. If there’s another Tombstone Limited Edition pizza out there, I’m 90 percent sure it also has ranchero sauce. (Spotted by Troy A at Meijer.)

Chesters Poppers Cheese Pizza Waffle Rounds

Chesters Poppers Cheddar Crunch Fries

Chesters Poppers BBQ Spirals

The BBQ Spirals must be the black sheep in the Chester’s Poppers family. No cheese. Junk Food Guy has a review of the Cheese Pizza Waffle Rounds. (Spotted by Alex at Walmart.)

Quaker Protein Instant Oatmeal

Eating this with my steak and eggs in the morning would be overkill, right? (Spotted by Brian at Kroger.)

Tic Tac Summer Ice Pop

These will feel so cool on a hot summer day…only after sticking them in the freezer overnight and then dumping them somewhere on my body. (Spotted by Matthew at Acme.)

Birds-Eye Voila Limited Edition Buffalo Style Chicken

Buffalo style chicken without the buffalo style chicken amount of napkins needed to eat it. Well, unless you eat it as if you were at the Excalibur Tournament of Kings. (Spotted by Nick at Price Chopper.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

REVIEW: Nabisco Limited Edition Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Oreo Cookies

Nabisco Limited Edition Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Oreo Cookies

I consider myself a fairly sensible person. Rarely, if ever, would I find it acceptable to physically bust a move and moonwalk in a Safeway grocery store, much less break out in operatic chorus just to praise a prepackaged cookie. A fresh-baked cookie? Maybe it deserves a short interlude mumbled under my breath, but a prepackaged cookie is a different story entirely. My friends, that is just nonsensical.

Yet that’s exactly what I felt compelled to do after discovering the new Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Oreo cookies. Do I regret it? Abso-freaking-lutly. Would I do it again? You better believe it.

I have a confession to make. I had somewhat given up on flavored Oreos. Last summer’s Strawberries ‘n Crème and Banana Split flavors pushed me to accept mediocrity on a three month limited edition release cycle, while recent shelf spotting of Watermelon and Fruit Punch have caused me to lose faith in Nabisco’s strategic vision. I don’t know about you, but when I sign up for a sandwich cookie—Oreo or otherwise—I’m signing up for some variation of chocolate or vanilla. If I wanted Watermelon, dammit I would eat a freaking Watermelon.

In any event, the news that Oreo had teamed up with Reese’s to make the long overdue peanut butter and chocolate crème (excuse me, chocolate “flavored” crème) sandwich cookie rekindled a hope in me that Nabisco remembered they were in the business of making cookies and not flavored water enhancers. That hope was momentarily dashed when on their long awaited release date I checked no less than four grocery stores to no avail, only finally coming in contact with the Reese’s Oreo cookies just as my blood sugar reached perilously low levels.

You might have assumed this excitement was sure to leave me crashing in the unavoidable realization that the Reese’s Oreo cookies couldn’t possibly be as good as they’d sound. You’d be making an ass out of you and me, though, because Reese’s Oreo are everything any tried and true Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup lover would want.

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The chocolate crème has a fudgy consistency tasting of more intense milk chocolaty flavor than standard chocolate Oreo crème, while the peanut butter has that trademarked salty and slightly gritty Reese’s flavor that balances its darker counterpart so perfectly. Twisted from their bases, the crème fillings might be a disappointment, but when eaten together and in conjunction with the exceptionally crunchy cocoa wafer, the fillings transform into a taste which is unabashedly Reese’s Cup in every sense of the title. Sweet and balanced with a deep, slightly salty flavor on the backend, there’s multiple intensities of chocolate dancing harmoniously with the exceptional, but not overpowering, peanut butter flavor. It is, to use the most precise representation of the English language available to our understanding, quite delectable.

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I suppose I could bemoan the filling’s complete reluctance to twist cleanly, or its slightly askew orientation in between the wafers. But really, why draw attention away from the most excellent representation of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup this side of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Dare I say, the exceptional cocoa taste and trademark crunch of the cookie actually makes the Reese’s Oreo superior to a Reese’s Cup in some ways, providing a completely new and exciting textural component to a time-tested flavor. And you know what? That fact alone provides plenty of reason for even a sensible person to celebrate in the most obnoxious of ways.

(Nutrition Facts – 2 cookies – 130 calories, 5 grams of fat, 1 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 115 milligrams of sodium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 12 grams of sugar, less than 1 grams of fiber, and 1 grams of protein..)

Item: Nabisco Limited Edition Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Oreo Cookies
Purchased Price: $2.98
Size: 12.2 oz package
Purchased at: Safeway
Rating: 9 out of 10
Pros: Almost uncanny replication of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup flavor. Fudgy chocolate. Salty-sweet peanut butter. Perfect sandwich cookie bite. Finally, an Oreo that doesn’t sound like a popsicle flavor. Lowest calorie flavored Oreos.
Cons: Filling has Leaning Tower of Pisa effect. Messier to eat than standard Oreos. Being off-key in a crowded Safeway.

PRIZE DRAWING: Carl’s Jr. Big Chicken Fillet Coupons

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The wonderful folks at Carl’s Jr. sent us four coupons to allow some of you to try their new Big Chicken Fillet for free. It features a premium five-ounce chicken breast fillet seasoned in Southern spices, breaded and served on a Fresh Baked Bun with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. We haven’t reviewed it, but Man Reviews Food gave it an extremely positive review.

RULES:

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Note: The coupon can only be used at Carl’s Jr. locations.

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